Isobel L. Dunsmoor
December 29, 1918 – October 25, 2016
Isobel L. Dunsmoor, age 97, of Sun City Center, Fla., passed away suddenly on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016 at South Bay Hospital. Isobel was born in Clovis, New Mexico on Dec. 29, 1918, to Francis Burt and Grace Hauenstein Burt. She was the first born of eight children.
Isobel is survived by her brother Robert of Sacramento, Calif.; three sons, Ronald Cooprider of Brandon Fla., William (Louise) Cooprider of Diamond City, Ark. and Terrence (Roberta) Cooprider of Sun City Center, Fla., and a daughter, Judy Lippert of Kenosha, Wis., and 10 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
In her life she has lived in various places: Zion Ill., Bremerton, Wash., Diamond City, Ark., Kenosha, Wis., Tracy, Idaho, Knoxville, Iowa Oskaloosa, Iowa, Lake Hamilton, Ark., and Sun City Center Fla.
She was a seamstress most of her life making draperies for homes and businesses, clothing alterations for customers, bedspreads, hats and purses. She loved to buy fabric and sew.
With her third husband, Robert Dunsmoor, she helped operate a photography studio in Oskaloosa, Iowa where she received awards for her hand-colorization of black and white portraits.
She enjoyed being a volunteer at the gift shop in the hospital in Harrison, Ark. She was described as a good worker and a good friend and one who greeted everyone with a friendly smile. She enjoyed playing golf at Diamond City. She was also a member of the Red Hat Society.
She attended United Methodist churches wherever she lived and was a member of the Tracy United Methodist Church where she participated in United Methodist Women and led some of their meetings with plays and scripts she coordinated with costumes.
Isobel was a loving, hard-working mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She will be dearly missed.
A celebration of her life was held at the United Methodist Church in Sun City Center at 10:30 a.m., on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016.
Isobel is survived by her brother Robert of Sacramento, Calif.; three sons, Ronald Cooprider of Brandon Fla., William (Louise) Cooprider of Diamond City, Ark. and Terrence (Roberta) Cooprider of Sun City Center, Fla., and a daughter, Judy Lippert of Kenosha, Wis., and 10 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
In her life she has lived in various places: Zion Ill., Bremerton, Wash., Diamond City, Ark., Kenosha, Wis., Tracy, Idaho, Knoxville, Iowa Oskaloosa, Iowa, Lake Hamilton, Ark., and Sun City Center Fla.
She was a seamstress most of her life making draperies for homes and businesses, clothing alterations for customers, bedspreads, hats and purses. She loved to buy fabric and sew.
With her third husband, Robert Dunsmoor, she helped operate a photography studio in Oskaloosa, Iowa where she received awards for her hand-colorization of black and white portraits.
She enjoyed being a volunteer at the gift shop in the hospital in Harrison, Ark. She was described as a good worker and a good friend and one who greeted everyone with a friendly smile. She enjoyed playing golf at Diamond City. She was also a member of the Red Hat Society.
She attended United Methodist churches wherever she lived and was a member of the Tracy United Methodist Church where she participated in United Methodist Women and led some of their meetings with plays and scripts she coordinated with costumes.
Isobel was a loving, hard-working mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She will be dearly missed.
A celebration of her life was held at the United Methodist Church in Sun City Center at 10:30 a.m., on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016.